One hand automatically goes up to cover Sonic's mouth as he snorts, a smirk tugging at the corner of his lips. "I got these because I was careless and lost a fight, a foolish one that I didn't need to be fighting in the first place. The only story in them is the tale of an angry teenager desperate to prove himself equal to his brother."

"He failed, by the way," he adds with more than a hint of bitterness. "I'd hide them beneath tattoos myself if it didn't feel like the coward's choice."